Overview

• Muñoz reached 21.97 meters on his sixth attempt to surge into second place and set a new Mexican record.
• Ryan Crouser took gold with 22.34 meters, while Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri earned bronze with 21.94.
• The medal is Mexico’s 14th all-time at the World Athletics Championships and its first in a field event.
• The 30-year-old from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, is an eight-time national champion who was eighth at Paris 2024.
• His silver carries a $35,000 prize and, per CONADE program rules cited in coverage, a 46,000‑peso monthly scholarship.